Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

The bridge on the main rail line from the Indian Ocean resort of Mombasa to Kisumu had been eroded by the raging flash floods and collapsed under the weight of the train.
(30 January 1993)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.

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Sunday 3rd of January 1892 (+) — Writer, poet, philologist and university professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is born.
Friday 13th of November 1970 (-) — Murderess Maria Groesbeek is executed by hanging.
“My husband wouldn’t give me a divorce, so I poisoned him with arsenic,” Groesbeek told police when they came to arrest her.